Rauner Special Collections Library

On June 13, 1782, James Blanchard, who had served in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment as quartermaster and paymaster from 1776-1781, wrote to ...

We always thought the New England Primer was the most morbid of alphabet books--at least of the ones that were meant for children. But, we ...

We owe the title of our post today to a book of the same name written by Frank Clodfelter in 1978 about the railroad artwork of Howard Fog...

In May of 1937, four Soviet scientists and their faithful dog were set down on the ice in the Arctic Ocean with supplies (five tons of food!...

In October of 1916, the world-renowned arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson had returned to his winter quarters on Melville Island in the...

This is getting absurd. Here I am using one form of social media (this blog) to promote a physical exhibition that is based on another form ...

Yet another snowy day in late March on campus has us casting our eyes in desperation to the sky in the vain hope of seeing a warm and welc...